A farmer gets attached to his cattle but when the time comes for one of them to go (either old age, to sell the meat, or there's a newer faster cattle that management has enforced a mandatory deadline of Q3 to migrate to), it's understood that it's time to say goodbye.

At one job, the servers were named after characters on Gilligan's Island.

Problems with Ginger were being discussed at one stand-up, and an engineer who didn't care about that quietly said, "Blah blah blah Ginger, blah blah blah Ginger." I almost fell over laughing.

(https://desertdemocrat.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gary-lars...)

Yeah, I work for a CDN with tens of thousands of machines, and I still miss wac052.mad when we decommmed that POP 5 years ago.

prodsys3 pales in comparison to when I had to decommission gandalf and galadriel.

Now when name them by physical position in the rack/bladecenter.

At least the memes write themselves.